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Trusting God In Your (Online) Dating Life

Trusting God In Your (Online) Dating Life

January 29, 2022
Not Strong Enough to Carry This Weight

Not Strong Enough to Carry This Weight

February 18, 2021
When Life Feels Mundane

When Life Feels Mundane

July 8, 2020
Musings of an Imperfect Perfectionist

Musings of an Imperfect Perfectionist

April 25, 2020
Understand This & You Will Never Read the Bible the Same Again

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Understand This & You Will Never Read the Bible the Same Again

By Samantha Swanson August 14, 2019

“I don’t see how the Bible applies to my life.” “I find the Bible more dry and confusing than anything else.” “I feel like I’m…

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Church Just Never Felt Like “Home” & Now It Does

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Church Just Never Felt Like “Home” & Now It Does

By Samantha Swanson July 30, 2019

I was that kid who loved going to church. It never bored me and it never felt like something my parents forced onto me. In…

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Confession: I strongly dislike confession.

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Confession: I strongly dislike confession.

By Samantha Swanson July 17, 2019

Just under a year ago, I sat in a coffee shop with a close, trusted friend of mine. I admitted to a sin I had…

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Lessons from the Kitchen Floor of My Dorm

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Lessons from the Kitchen Floor of My Dorm

By Samantha Swanson June 18, 2019

My roommate for the first two years of college has become one of my closest friends. She and I experienced a lot of college life…

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How to Worship When You’d Rather Not

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How to Worship When You’d Rather Not

By Samantha Swanson May 18, 2019

The other day, I read Psalm 42: a psalm full of such brutal honesty that I felt like I was intruding on someone’s private journal.…

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Should Christians Expect Non-Believers to Save Sex for Marriage?

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Should Christians Expect Non-Believers to Save Sex for Marriage?

By Samantha Swanson December 17, 2018

In C. S. Lewis’ classic, Mere Christianity, he writes a chapter on Christian marriage. To start, he writes that he wishes he could pass over…

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If Only I Were You… {Part 3}

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If Only I Were You… {Part 3}

By Samantha Swanson July 7, 2018

In the last post, we talked about the seriousness and root cause of envy. Today, it's time to tie the story together with the third piece of a three…

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If Only I Were You… {Part 2}

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If Only I Were You… {Part 2}

By Samantha Swanson July 4, 2018

Last time, I started sharing a story, leading into what God’s been teaching me about envy (Part 1 of a three part series). If you…

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If Only I Were You… {Part 1}

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If Only I Were You… {Part 1}

By Samantha Swanson July 2, 2018

Have you ever wanted what someone else had? Or maybe, have you wanted to be who someone else was? Me too. Oh, envy. It’s an…

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The War We Wage

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The War We Wage

By Samantha Swanson March 15, 2018

Maybe you’re like me, and you tend to approach situations logically. Personally, this means that what I can’t see is often hard to believe…not that…

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